What's it all about?

To begin at the beginning, why Notebook? Probably because I plan to use this blog to write notes. To remind myself, perhaps. Notes about what? Well, anything, but certainly including local history, books, football, Norfolk, and walking.
And why 'flongster,' a most unattractive word when standing on its own. Actually, flong harks back to the days of hot metal (as opposed to computer digital) printing. A flong was a sheet of a compressed composite material which went under a heavy mangle on top of the flat, metal page of type. The resulting flexible mould could then be fastened on to the printing press rollers. In the late 1950s, if working late in the offices of our two weekly newspapers, I was occasionally press-ganged into driving the office car - with the flongs of the next day's edition in the boot - from our office in Spalding to the printing press at Peterborough.